Re: how to have AS/400 console at home

["Steve McKay" <Steve.McKay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeffry wrote:
"PC anywhere has a password, your PC has a password and the AS/400 has a
password.
Plus someone has to know the dial-in phone number."

Jeffry -

I pose this scenario in all sincerity as a matter of my own curiousity -

Suppose I'm a bad guy working part-time as the janitor at your company. One
night I'm cleaning up around your office and I hear your modem negotiating
a connection.  As I stand there, I see you take control of your PC, open a
connection to the AS/400, sign-on and start doing "stuff".  Being an
educated bad guy (whose probation terms say that I can't touch a computer -
that's why I'm your janitor), I realize that there are many files on this
AS/400 that I would like to have copies of or make changes to  - and I've
got an "already signed-on" connection.

Now the question -

If I pull the phone cable out of the PC modem on your desk, can I take over
the "already signed-on" session and have my way with your AS/400??

(I don't know the answer but I would guess "yes").

Thanks,

Steve